Therapy Chapters

Official Twitter account of Therapy Chapters.
Psychotherapy Sessions and Studies.

A CPCAB, (UK) centre in Pakistan.

[Therapy Chapters @TherapyChapters]

https://t.co/7RRoTyxuWH

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

The diagnosis of female hysteria never left. It just got rebranded to: borderline personality disorder.

[Amanda Bainbridge @JungAtHeart_]

Why do so many people enter therapy expecting tools and techniques, only to discover something far more powerful? New blog post on why the relationship itself is what heals, not the advice we think we need.

https://t.co/8Qd71UfXho

[Dr Sanil Rege FRANZCP | MRCPsych @sanilrege]

Psychopharmacology is misunderstood 🚨

The goal of psychopharmacology is to optimise stability across five functional domains (PACES) to facilitate the process of neuroadaptation.

Pharmacotherapy is one component - integrated with psychological, behavioural, and environmental interventions to drive recovery.

P -Perception
A - Activity
C-Cognition
E-Emotional Hedonics
S- Sleep

[Kimia Nora @kimianora]

Heal your brain first. Your body gets the message loud and clear.

[Kimia Nora @kimianora]

Chronic pain, depression, and anxiety are not defects of the body—they are patterns of the brain. And the brain can change.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

How will *just talking* in therapy help me get better?

“Give sorrow words”
—psychoanalyst William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

👉 Words are powerful containers of emotion. The process of putting thoughts and feelings into words *transforms* them

👉It brings thought and feelings into the light of day

👉allows them to be processed in a different way and integrated into the totality of one’s experience and identity

👉brings them increasingly under conscious (voluntary) control

👉and so expands freedom and choice, where previously our responses were automatic or experienced as obligatory

👉the newfound clarity opens the door to solutions previously invisible to us

👉creates relational connection with another human being around experience previously suffered in a state of isolation and aloneness

👉brings to bear all of the emotion-regulatory functions of attachment

👉 builds our capacity for authentic empathy and intimacy with others—which helps counteract emotional pain and make it more bearable

👉mobilizes psychological strengths, resources, and capacities,

👉and opens possibilities for new emotional development and growth

I could go on. At length

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break”
—Shakespeare

[Dr. Emily Anhalt @dremilyanhalt]

Someone asked me why I think we use food to manage our emotions.

Because, I said, for our first years of life, food and love are one and the same. You are hungry, your greatest source of love shows up, you stop being hungry.

I don't know that we ever fully decouple the two.

If you want to understand your relationship to food, take a look at your relationship to the people who fed you.

[Therapy Chapters @TherapyChapters]

@aclientfirst This is devastating! I feel so sad!

[Dr. Emily Anhalt @dremilyanhalt]

my therapist says I cant
make the monsters disappear
no matter how much I pay her
all she can do is bring them
into the room so I can get
to know them, so I can learn
their names, so I can see
clearly their toothless mouths,
their empty hands, their pleading eyes.

@_joseolivarez

[Erin Stevens same handle elsewhere @aclientfirst]

I'd just really like it if therapists would put some thought into their therapeutic approach to elements of practice such as between session contact, touch, and receiving gifts, before they crop up in client work. Making these decisions in a reactive way can cause harm.

[Simon 🏕️ @IHearSimon]

Carl Rogers on giving advice:

[Neal Taparia @nealtaparia]

Your 9-to-5 job is dying.

By 2034, it'll be extinct.

That's Reid Hoffman's latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997.

Here's what he said next:

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

"It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried."

Carl Rogers

#counselling

[Maria Albertsen @MariaAlbertsen_]

content, just as a tool to enhance what we’re working on & to take some of the pressure off. For me, it also helps with dyslexia. I’ve agreed to put together some training & will be running it in Aug (hopefully!), if anyone wants to come along. I’ll share more details then 😊2/2

[Erin Stevens same handle elsewhere @aclientfirst]

We therapists need to stop thinking about harm in terms of "avoiding harm" & start thinking about it in terms of "facing harm". The trouble with avoiding harm is that when it happens, all we have is "this wasn't supposed to happen" which is useless to a person experiencing harm.

[Carolyn Spring @CarolynSpring]

I wanted a therapist to give me sympathy, but not for him/her to hold up a mirror for me. I wanted validation to stay as I was, rather than challenge to change.
Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/9l6HEd4cYW
#TherapistsConnect

[Mick Cooper @mickcooper77]

What's it like to set up a Mental Health Political Party: to campaign for wider access to psychological treatments and improved mental wellbeing? @BenMullingsPhD established the Australian Mental Health Party in the 2010s and discusses his experiences
https://t.co/OkJ7UeTtBy